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The Polytechnic Ibadan Student’s Union, Stakeholders have pledges support for Governor Seyi Makinde’s Re-election bid. This was made known shortly after the combined students, stakeholders meeting held at the institution on the Thursday 16th of March. In Statement made available to Newsmen in Ibadan, they highlighted the many midas touch the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde has brought to Education in the State, adding that Their Institution no longer go on strike, all educational Activities has received boost, a feet they describe as unprecedented in the history of Education in Oyo State. They praise the Governor for constant release of…

As the state prepares for the last lap of political campaigns ahead of Saturday’s Governorship and state Assembly elections, three persons have been feared killed. Among the three killed is a ward 10 councilor, by name Sulaiman Ariyibi, in Ibadan South East local government of Oyo state who was said to be shot dead by suspected thugs working with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state. Identities of the other two feared killed said to be non members of PDP still remain unknown as at time of filing this report. Addressing journalists at the state Hospital, Adeoyo, where the…

The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, approved a half-day holiday for workers in the employ of the state on Friday, March 17, 2023 ahead of Saturday’s elections. A circular authorised by the Secretary to the state government, Olubanwo Adeosun, said the action became imperative to enable the civil and public servants in the state, who might wish to travel, to vote in the Saturday, March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections, to do so. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Taiwo Adisa, indicated that workers were expected to close at 12PM, with only…

A group, the Lagos Indigenes Congress (Igbimo Omo Eko), a network of Lagos bonafide indigenes across the Ibile of Lagos, has affirmed that the Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate in Lagos State, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes- Vivour, is a bonafide son of a reputable Lagos Island family and cannot be wished away because of maternal lineage. The group of indigenes made this assertion in a communique issued at the end of its emergency meeting in Lagos Sunday and signed by Dr. Olusola Bamgbowu, describing the discussion on identity as worrisome. The group noted that there was no individual that does not…

The candidate of Labour Party, LP for Ibarapa East State Constituency in the forthcoming State House of Assembly Election, Hon Adesope Abiodun has stepped down for Hon Adebo Ogundoyin and promised to work for the victory of the Speaker come March 18, 2023. Hon Adesope Abiodun said this at the end of a meeting with the Speaker and the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Ibarapa East Local Government . The LP Candidate said all the supporters and members of Labour Party in all the units and wards in the constituency will now work with the PDP to…

The Executive Chairman of Ido Local Government area of Oyo State, Hon. Sheriff Adeyemi Adeojo, has installed solar street light at some strategic locations in the secretariat of the council. In the same vein, at Orobiyi road in Ward 8, and Balogun Toriola in Ward 4, ten solar street lights were installed each for the communities as the entire residents expressed gratitude to Chairman of the Council for counting them worthy of such benefit. According to a press statement personally signed on Friday and made available to journalists in Ibadan, Adeojo stated that the project will serve different purposes, ranging…

SIR: The 2019 gubernatorial electoral cycle marked the third time Seyi Makinde entered the race for Agodi governor’s office after two previous failed attempts. Four years have passed by. We’re in the thick of another governorship election. Providence has invaded the state with another peculiar circumstance orchestrated, presumably to favour the same man. Governor Makinde was in the group of G-5 who stood their grounds to frustrate emergence of Atiku Abubakar, PDP presidential candidate. Their grouse: Their clamour for power shift to the south was totally ignored by their party, PDP. Of that G-5 group, Makinde and Nyesom Wike of…

The Oyo State Pilgrims’ Welfare Board (Muslim Wing) has said it will close the collection of the 2023 initial hajj fare from intending pilgrims on March 20, 2023. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Board, Professor Sayed Malik through a statement released to the press today in Ibadan. The Board fixed Two Million Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#2.6M) only as initial deposit of the 2023 Hajj fare for each of intending pilgrim in the State. “Recall that the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) recently allocated 1441 seats to Oyo State for the 2023 Hajj exercise and in…

Justice M.L .Owolabi of the state high court of Oyo state has stopped Mr. Muili Oluwole Oladejo of AgbonOnilabu compounded from parading himself as Mogaji, the head of the family. Muili Oladejo was installed as Mogaji Agbon Onilabu compound by Olubadan of Ibadanland, HIM Oba (Dr) Moshood Olalekan Balogun and the Olubadan-in-Council, on the 17th December 2022, while a case challenging the process of appointment is still on hearing by the law court. While delivering the rolling, Justice M.L . Owolabi described the Olubadan and his council’s action as extremely nasty, and cruel, therefore restraining the Oba and his chief…

The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 by one week. The elections will now hold on March 18, 2023. A Residential Electoral Commissioner who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity confirmed the decision. Details later…